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Other brake problem on the 1996 Hyundai Sonata

Only 0 reports for this mode came with an odometer reading, which is too few for percentiles to mean anything. The page is here because someone linked to it; treat the figures as anecdotes, and see the full report for this year instead.

Reports of this failure 1
With an odometer reading 0
Reports per 1,000 built 0.1 per 1,000
Filed below 36,000 miles 0%
Mention a crash, fire or injury 0
Typical repair $300–$1,800
What it means when it happens High
Rank among this year's problems 14th

When other brake problem gets reported

There are 1 report of other brake problem on the 1996 Hyundai Sonata. That is too few to place the failure on the odometer with any confidence.

It is the 14th most-reported problem on this model year.

None of these reports included an odometer reading, so there is no mileage distribution to show. NHTSA's form does not require the field.

What happens, and what it costs

Putting it right typically runs $300–$1,800 at an independent US shop. That range is an editorial estimate held in this site's failure-mode catalogue, not a figure from NHTSA, and it is a repair cost rather than a diagnosis cost.

The same failure on other years

The same failure is reported on 21 model years of this car. It shows up earliest on the 2018, at a median of 10,000 miles, and latest on the 2020 at 120,000 miles.

By volume the 2012 carries the most reports, with 87; the 1996 has 0. A mode that appears across most years of a model is usually a design choice rather than a bad batch.

If one year stands out to the left, that is the year to avoid; if the whole line sits at a similar mileage, this is wear rather than a defect in one production run.

Median
  1. 1996 (this one)
    no odometer readings given
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  2. 1997 Hyundai Sonata other brake problem
    no odometer readings given
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  3. 1998 Hyundai Sonata other brake problem
    no odometer readings given
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  4. 1999 Hyundai Sonata other brake problem
    no odometer readings given
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  5. 2000 Hyundai Sonata other brake problem 100k
  6. 2001 Hyundai Sonata other brake problem 58k
  7. 2002 Hyundai Sonata other brake problem 73k
  8. 2003 Hyundai Sonata other brake problem 37k
  9. 2004 Hyundai Sonata other brake problem 99k
  10. 2005 Hyundai Sonata other brake problem 71k
  11. 2006 Hyundai Sonata other brake problem 60k
  12. 2007 Hyundai Sonata other brake problem 29k
  13. 2008 Hyundai Sonata other brake problem 30k
  14. 2009 Hyundai Sonata other brake problem 49k
  15. 2010 Hyundai Sonata other brake problem 68k
  16. 2011 Hyundai Sonata other brake problem 75k
  17. 2012 Hyundai Sonata other brake problem 66k
  18. 2013 Hyundai Sonata other brake problem 54k
  19. 2014 Hyundai Sonata other brake problem 55k
  20. 2015 Hyundai Sonata other brake problem 39k
  21. 2016 Hyundai Sonata other brake problem 32k
  22. 2017 Hyundai Sonata other brake problem 14k
  23. 2018 Hyundai Sonata other brake problem 9k
  24. 2019 Hyundai Sonata other brake problem 78k
  25. 2020 Hyundai Sonata other brake problem 120k
  26. 2021 Hyundai Sonata other brake problem
    no odometer readings given
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  27. 2022 Hyundai Sonata other brake problem
    no odometer readings given
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  28. 2023 Hyundai Sonata other brake problem
    no odometer readings given
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  29. 2024 Hyundai Sonata other brake problem 110k
  30. 2025 Hyundai Sonata other brake problem
    no odometer readings given
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Tick median reported mileage Solid middle half of reports Faint 10th to 90th percentile Colour how bad the failure is when it happens

Also reported on the 1996 Hyundai Sonata

How far this goes

This page is kept out of search results because 1 report is not enough to publish percentiles from. It stays reachable because somebody looking at this exact car would rather see the reports than be told there are none.

Complaints are voluntary, so 1 is a floor and not a count of affected cars. Mileages are typed in by owners and cluster on round numbers. And the mode itself is assigned by software reading the complaint text, which is reliable in bulk and fallible one report at a time.

What this is and is not. These are the mileages at which owners chose to complain to a federal agency, which is not the same as the mileage at which the part fails on every car. It skews toward failures that happened outside warranty, cost real money, or frightened someone. It is still the only public dataset that carries failure mileage at all, and the shape of a few hundred readings is informative even when a single one is not. Methodology · JSON · this failure on other cars

Source Owner complaints and recall records published by the US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, model years 1996–2027 Figures rebuilt Published by AtWhatMileage How every figure is computed